Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Ständchen (Serenade) D 957 no 4 from “Schwanengesang”.

It's hard to say what the afterlife holds for musicians who choose to tamper with Schubert's songs by performing them in instrumental arrangements. On one hand, you've got to admire their love of ...

Franz Schubert's final, painful days in November 1828 included bouts of delirium, requests for novels by James Fennimore Cooper, ceaseless singing and snatches of lucidity, when he actually worked on ...

We're spending the hour with one of the best violinists performing today, Gil Shaham. We start with a violin and guitar pairing, from a recording Shaham made with guitarist Goran (YOHR-an) Sollscher ...

Every morning at 6:00 a.m., he commenced writing music, and he continued until 1:00 p.m. before taking a break. Some say he composed more than 65 bars of music each day. Before he died a tragic death ...